Knowing what you know now, if you could go back and never take any medicine would you do it?

[LiquidOrgasm]

I wish I never would have taken Dolophine and Klonopin, found alt. methods for pain management / anxiety, also wish I would have joined a support group for MPS (massive penis syndrome) instead of taking the experimental addicting new age drugs for it (such a small percentage of men have it not a lot of resources are allocated to its research)

[MayreeAngel]

for me......Ambien. Many years ago after no sleep for 2 weeks straight, I was told they were non addictive. I know better now. Maybe I would've found another solution.

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Just waking up so short answer.

I wish that I had never touched ambien. I hate my addiction to Ambien.

My quality of life would be horrible without pain medication. I would probably not be able to work. So I'd have to say if I had to do it again I would keep those. Maybe I would change what I did to injure my body so terribly then not need the meds lol. This could get complicated. Fun thread.

My answer is exactly the same. I think I could've found another solution to sleep and skipped the quick fix of Ambien. I'll keep my hydros (altho I hate the addiction) in order to maintain my life without pain.

[artemis]

Wish I never took ANYTHING. Looking back every addiction problem was due to something that was prescribed for me for whatever, starting as a child. I was hyperactive, taken to a child psychiatrist, and given lots of pills (too young to remember what exactly). Then given Valium to ward off seizures. Then given Placidyl to get me off the Valium. Then given Ativan for anxiety, etc., etc.. Ambien, oxy, Xanax, the list continues. At 60 years old I am very surprised I have not burned out my brain entirely. Good thread.

[Kat0711]

I agree with a lot of the answers given here... but for me it would be a NO to any narcotics or benzos. I know pain and depression often go hand in hand and for me I was sent to an "over achiever" pain management clinic that because I had good insurance they prescribed me everything under the sun they could. I wish I knew then what I know now. I would not have started down this one-way, dead-end road. I am now taking tramadol and I agree with the two folks that say it curbs your appetite and had antidepressant qualities because I recently tried to taper off and found myself in a very bad way. I wish I had never heard of opiods!

Have a good Day all....

Kat

[Hemanne]

I can't think of anything I know now that would change what I did then. Knowing 'this is going to end in pain' never made any difference to me, I had to do it. I know some people say taking drugs is a matter of choice, usually politicians or inexperienced medico's, but for me there was no choice and going back it would still be the same. For me it was an escape from my world into drugs from an early age, addicted to all the BM drugs at some time or other, usually in combinations.

Now it's drugs for medicine because the body breaks down but I don't chase the high any more because I had enough, and I know how to handle the addictive drugs because of my experience.

You've probably heard of the butterfly effect? A butterfly flaps its wings in Peru and there's a storm in ??? Oslo. No, as difficult as living was at times and for a long time I wouldn't change anything.

What would I change it to? Even the rich and famous are miserable and kill themselves. I am actually enjoying my older age (most of the time) and I think my experience has something to do with that.

I am going on tonight, must be the new Tramadol effect. Time for bed now I think.

[mani]

I totally agree with you @Xzentric in that I wished I had never touched a drug in my life.

For me it would after I took LSD, had a really bad trip and experienced my first ever panic attack really thought my heart was going to explode.

I didn't know what was happening to me so phoned a friend who came round and told me to take this tablet which he had. After about half an hour I felt enormous relief. It turned out that it was 30mg of Temazepam (jelly). I'd never heard of this drug before, and so the love affair of benzo's began.

Ever since that day I continued to have panic attacks and knew benzo's were the only drug that helped me. My doctor put me on an SSRI despite me saying that diazepam worked for best, in hindsight I think he thought that I was just a drug seeker. Although I don't take benzo's everyday for a few years now I have been obsessed with making sure I have a small supply and for me IOP's have been a godsend.

I still wished I hadn't taken that damn LSD in the first place though.

[crucibelle]

I kind of wish I'd never touched Tramadol, but on the flip side -- my life would be hell without it. Tramadol WD's are a bitch, though.

[audacity]

1. Effexor
2. Effexor
3. Effexor
4. Cocaine (which I had no desire to do before Effexor. They call it blow because you blow all your money on it)
5. Xanax (Valium was just fine in retrospect, and less addicting)

[crucibelle]

@audacity -- I can certainly commiserate with you about Effexor. I was on it for a couple of years. For some reason, I started having a horrible side effect from it (I think it had to do with the fact I had my gall bladder removed). The side effect was excruciating upper right quadrant stomach pain. Therefore, I had to stop taking it. It took at least a year for all the WD symptoms to go away... it was horrible. I do wish I'd never started having that one particular side effect, though... because Effexor worked very well for my depression and anxiety.

[mr_average]

Xanax really doesn't agree with me but I don't wish that I'd never taken it.

It's all part of lifes rich tapestry.

[brienzi]

For me the Cocaine..Firsta ya get the Money, and When ya Get the Money, Then u get Power, and Whena u get the Power, Then yua get the WOOman Scarface the movie
an older cousin introduced me 2 it when i was like 16...Had a love affair with it for many years..caused me siezures, never mind the frickin money...

[the dude1]

Blow. Hands down, didn't like a clogged nose, I talk too much to begin with and you can do 200$ of it in a night easy. Also Alcohol. It is to easy to get and I have no regulator, I can have one beer or 20 beers. Sometime I think Benzos as well, but they seem to be easy for me to quit. Opiates build tolerance to fast for me to consider them a threat. However, seems females really liked to party with a little of that white making it worth it about 1 time a year. Besides, Benzo connects come and go and they are not always available. I'm still on the fence about online orders of them since I'm in the states. It is very illegal to order them from ******** online and I guess I'm a bit paranoid with my profession. Perhaps one day I'll get to the seniors section and trust a source enough to try, until then maybe I'll try one from the juniors section of the reviewer.

[IGoeOn]

I wish I had never started smoking pot - I was entirely anti-pot until I started smoking it to gain weight (sigh) and manage my anxiety. A few puffs turned into a long-term relationship that has more or less sucked. I rarely smoke these days but I wish I had never started down that path - I would probably still be thin.

I also wish I hadn't taken the pill Paxil. I have referred to it as the devil's drug. The wd's from that med were pure hell.

I mean, I guess I also wish I hadn't started taking any sleeping pills. I was a true insomniac back in the day - I wish I had just learned a better way to manage my anxiety and sleep instead of this alternative.

I loved cocaine - but I basically moved past it. It was a short-term love affair and I remember it rather fondly...

[Blockhead]

F*cking Depakote! My hair became very thin and whispy and I have very long hair. After 2 years plus, my mane is finally back to it's thick Caveman Appearance. No facial hair though although I've had short beards 30 years ago when I was mucho younger and had shorter hair.

[JackB]

I wish I had never started taking Benzo's to be honest, I feel like I will always live with them hanging over me, every moment of stress and anxiety, every time I can't sleep, I'll want to take them but I'll know that it is a bad idea.

I can't say the same for PK's as I don't know how I would have coped without them really, and I am lucky in that those are the one thing I haven't developed an addiction/obsession with, although I am acutely aware of how easy that would be to do from the members of this forum.

I don't regret taking anything else at all, although not for everyone I genuinely think that the hallucinogens I have taken have helped me as a person and made me see the world in a different way. I don't fear things I once did and I feel privileged to have had those spiritual experiences, especially DMT. Could never regret taking ecstasy as I had such a good time but MY GOD I wish I hadn't have wasted so much money on the devils dandruff! I don't really regret taking it as it taught me valuable lessons in life but when I think of the money I wasted on it I feel genuinely sick!